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by lekanwang 12y ago
Human visual acuity of 20/20 is being able to discern 1 arcmin in bright light. With trig, you get that, if you're holding the screen a foot away, that amounts to 0.000349 inches, which is 1432 dpi. If you're holding the devi
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by lekanwang 12y ago
Just thinking back to when I was in college, I would not trust the college version of myself of my opinion of the absolute strengths of others. For relative strengths, maybe, but even then, I was heavily biased by my peer group, so you woul
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by lekanwang 12y ago
The government procurement process is insanely complex. A full competitive bid process for something of this magnitude would have taken many months at least, and would also make it really hard for consortiums to bid because of the up-front
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by lekanwang 13y ago
Max is also a popular visual music programming system http://cycling74.com/products/max/
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by lekanwang 13y ago
Has anyone located a more detailed project description or paper? Using camera imagery is definitely nothing new, and in many autonomous systems with radar/lidar (including the Google car), cameras still supplement the lidar imagery. I'm won
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Creating an In-person Community around online courses(coursepods.org)
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by lekanwang 14y ago
From a demo I tried, the computer on your right temple is at least sensitive to swipes and taps to access a menu. In addition, the menu can be scrolled by looking up and down, so voice is not necessary.
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by lekanwang 14y ago
"Your customer’s incentives are not straightforward." So true. Don't mean this to be cynical, but if you actually want to have a chance of upending the healthcare system, always clearly identify the flow of money (are costs paid by carriers
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by lekanwang 14y ago
Some of our core platform features, backend additions, and applications started as hack week projects. Every project you see featured in the linked video will be used. There are many more that aren't featured in the video that are more spec
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by lekanwang 14y ago
There was an amazing blog post ( http://41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-read... ) on 41Latitude when it still around about the absolute thing of beauty and art that is the labeling and visual design of Google Maps that enab
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by lekanwang 14y ago
Java's pretty tedious for certain tasks, but it does lend itself well to large teams coding on a large code base and being able to understand everything quickly. Yes, Eclipse is much more heavyweight than vim, and Java's a whole lot more he
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by lekanwang 14y ago
Props to the team for reaching 1.0. I've been trying this out with Scalatra, and it's the most fun I've had standing up a web stack. Would definitely recommend this.
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by lekanwang 15y ago
I was MS CS at Stanford, and I agree with Ben's sentiment. I took CS221, and checked out ai-class for fun, and knew several people taking the on-campus version of CS221 this quarter. The short of it is that the online version is essentially
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by lekanwang 15y ago
How introductory programming is taught should really be approached from two directions these days. (1) How to teach a firm foundation for those likely to pursue computer science, and (2) how to motivate and teach a breadth of material to th
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by lekanwang 15y ago
I was quite disappointed by his non-technical lectures as well, and hope they improve. But, even if they are improved, almost every student watching that lecture will miss a big part of the humanities--being with peers, actively engaging in